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<p><font face="serif">Guys -- I just checked and some of you are
running with job dependencies set between your jobs. I only do
then when the results of one job have to be used by the results
of another job. If you are using the "afterok" clause in your
job submission scripts then you are forcing the job queuing
system to run your jobs in a synchronous manner. The power of
"torque" is that it can look at all of the submitted jobs and
figure out how to run them optimally on the available nodes and
processors.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">You may have a reason for wanting to do this,
but I can say that based on my experience it is not needed here
and is hurting your overall job throughput.</font></p>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b><i>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</i></b><br>
<i>Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science</i><br>
<i>Director of the Computational Science Program</i><br>
<i>Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627</i></div>
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